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transcend | transcender |

As a verb transcend

is to pass beyond the limits of something.

As a noun transcender is

one who transcends.

transcend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to pass beyond the limits of something.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • such popes as shall transcend their limits
  • to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
  • * Dryden
    • How much her worth transcended all her kind.
  • (obsolete) To climb; to mount.
    • lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
    (Howell)

    Derived terms

    * transcendence * transcendency * transcendent * transcendental * transcendentalism * transcendentalist * transcendentally * transcending

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    transcender

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who transcends.
  • * 1995 , Antoine Culioli, ?Michel Liddle, Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory (page v)
    • British and North American practitioners tend to ignore the heirs, gainsayers and transcenders of the framework set out by Ferdinand de Saussure.
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